So, at long last, I have some time to give an update. This time I have actual photographic evidence! We've been working out transitions and rehearsing with full costumes all this week. It's been a lot of difficult and frustrating work, but it has all been work that the whole crew enjoys doing and we seem to share the strict belief that it will be very much worth it.

Above: Here, from left to right, is Narrator Nina Heithausen, Clarinettist Judith Damm, and guitarist Max Bauer agreeing on how to handle some of the tricky moments in the How the Rhinoceros Got Its Wrinkly Skin story.

Above: Here is a moment from How The Leopard Got Its Spots. Max Bauer (on the ladder), Elisabeth Schlicksupp as the pre-spotted Leopard, the "Kamel" peeking out over the prop, Narrator Nina Heithausen as the as yet not black Ethiopian (Thanks Mr. Kipling. But I suppose he had no idea how awkward that would become 110 years later.), And clarinetist Judith Damm as the Zebra.

Above: Producer/Choreographer Hayley Glickfeld-Bielman as The Giraffe. Costumes and set design by Anne-Simone Vogt. The whole project is the brainchild of Hayley.